EPA retiree, pulled back into Pebble, says he’s done

Retired EPA scientist Phil North. (Photo: Liz Ruskin/APRN)Retired EPA scientist Phil North, the man the Pebble Partnership says was the mastermind behind the effort to block its proposed mine in southwest Alaska, spent a full day answering questions from a congressional committee Thursday.
Now that the staff of the House Science Committee is done questioning him, North says his involvement in the Pebble mine is over.
“I hope it is,” he clarified, in an interview on the